Often times the most valuable files are what users are working on right
now. Being able to roll back to a specific point in time is necessary,
rather than just going back to last night’s backup. Companies need
sophisticated policy-based data management that enables them to focus
on the data with the highest business value as well.

Although most companies have implemented solutions for protecting the
enterprise data, data residing in workstations, laptops and file servers
is notoriously under-protected – even though it amounts to 60 to
70 percent of all corporate data, according to some industry experts.

IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files provides a real-time,
continuous data protection solution for file servers and users-endpoints. Instead of waiting for a scheduled interval, Tivoli Continuous Data Protection
for Files backs up your most important files the moment they are saved,
in real time. What's more, it does this effortlessly and transparently,
in some cases eliminating the backup window. You can specify as many
as three target backup/replication areas for high-priority files to help
you capture every save of a file when it occurs to help protect against
corruption, file loss or system loss.

With IBM Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files, you can:

Protect important files continuously and in real time, without administrative
intervention

Take advantage of rapid disk-to-disk protection and restore capabilities

Minimize the backup/recovery window

Achieve point-in-time-based recovery with the ability to roll back
to arbitrary versions

Optimize recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time
objectives (RTO)

Retain data files for predefined lengths of time

Help control costs with increased user productivity

Easy to implement and transparently runs in the background

Set up and manage easily with a light footprint

Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files also:

Versions the separate copies of the files to facilitate date-based restore

Auto-manages the local backup target area as a pool with a configurable
size, deleting old versions to make room for new versions

Enables you to specify a remote file server or Tivoli Storage Manager
for off-machine protection when a user is connected, so real-time
backup still occurs

Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files can be used with Tivoli
Storage Manager and the Tivoli Storage Manager family of solutions
for seamless,
integrated and complete data backup and recovery for business continuity
and resilience. Tivoli CDP for Files, along with Tivoli Storage
Manager, provides additional enterprise-level capabilities, including
off-site
tape copies of data for long term vaulting, auditable enterprise
disaster recovery plans, space management, and tape and media management.
Continuous
Data for Files also supports Microsoft Vista and is integrated
with IBM Lotus Notes.

Business Results
Clients will benefit by reducing the operational costs of managing and
maintaining backup hardware, software and the media the data resides on.
Additionally all data is secured properly off site and available 24/7.

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